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Lifehacker Founder Wants To Hack Your Tweets With A New App

Source: TechCrunch

Aug 21, 2009

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Since Gina Trapani stepped down from her role running Lifehacker, the blog she started under Gawker, she’s apparently been busy working on a new kind of Twitter application. Today, she gave a preview of what it will be on her new blog Smarterware. Tentatively called Twitalytic, it’s a self-hosted web-based application that grabs your tweets, archives them, and uses them to give your some interesting data about the people you follow and those who follow you.

As you can see on the preview page Trapani has made public, one interesting thing that Twitalytic does is show you just how many people replied to individual tweets you’ve made. If you click on the link for these replies, you can see each of them on a new page. But that’s just one basic thing you can do with the service.

Here’s more from Trapani:

That listing is the most basic thing Twitalytic can do. When you set it up and log into the app, you can curate replies and see other views of your data, like your “least likely” followers, your least and most active friends, your most replied-to tweets and more. For

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Comments (2)

Bluraven,

Aug 21, 2009

I could really use something like this to better determine how I'd like to use Twitter vs. how I use FriendFeed, since I tend to use the two services for different reasons.

Marcel,

Aug 21, 2009

"Tentatively called Twitalytic, it’s a self-hosted web-based application that grabs your tweets, archives them, and uses them to give you some interesting data about the people you follow and those who follow you."